Teaser Alert – 3D Hologram Printer Takes Shape
While the night before Christmas might have visions of sugar plums dancing in your head, we’ve got visions of 3D Hologram Printers!
These rough design sketches have been part of our inspiration for a while now, and give you just a glimpse of what we have been pursuing over the past year or two. In the next few weeks,
we’ll show you more of what the physical unit and prototypes are looking like now, and of course some more test holograms.
Until then, help spread the word by sending this post to anyone who might be interested in the future of holograms, and make sure you are signed up for our 3D Hologram Printer launch list: www.litiholo.com/3d-hologram-printer.html
If you are just now hearing about our 3D Hologram Printer and want more background, take a look at our New Directions post, and see our Buzz Lightyear test hologram teaser post.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from LitiHolo! Looking forward to a new year with some new hologram treats.
The wait is killing me 🙂
This is so exciting! Cannot wait to see the next update, new test printed holograms and prototypes of the printer!
I don’t understand what this printer is supposed to do that is different from simply shooting a hologram.
Richard, it’s like a 3-D printer: You build a virtual model of something, and then you can print a hologram of it.
Actually, if you want to make an hologram of somebody, you need to scan him or her first, then print in 3D his portrait, and make a traditionnal hologramm of the 3D print, except if you plan to create a multiplex hologram wich is very complex and long to do.
This machine remove the 3D print process and bring hologram creation easy.
I love Litiholo, but I’m missing something very important.
A hologram is a 2D print, yes, of a composite pattern produced by interference (phased summing) of many 2D images from each part of a 3D object, but still a 2D printed pattern. (How thick does a transparency film have to be if each spot or pixel has one intensity?).
Why is a 3D printer necessary, does or can it produce a 3D translucent print of a 4D (non-physical but mathematically representable) object?
If so, I got some great representations to print in 3D! Just ask me. I read Flatland more than 50 years ago and have been thinking about higher dimensions since!
Hi Mitch,
They say a “3D hologram printer”, i.e. a printer for a “3D hologram”, not a 3D printer.
PS1: you are right that you need interference fringes. That’s what Litiholo does.
PS2: Of course, it’s true that a hologram is always 3D … except for many “hologram events” where a 2D image is projected as “pepper’s ghost” onto a window, in which case it is called “a hologram” by the marketeers, though it is everything but a hologram (for scientists). So, perhaps it is then indeed still better to say “3D hologram” instead of “hologram”. At the end of the day, it is thus correct to speak about a “3D hologram printer”.
Living in a small apartment with little free room is what kept me from committing to this hobby. If this becomes a reality anytime soon, I’d finally have something worthwhile to replace the spot my broken 3d printer currently has.
Hoping we’ll get some more juicy details soon.
Probably the printer needs to be in a free vibrations environnement if it uses the traditionnal fringes laser. Let’s wait more explanations from the creators but it s definitly good news for holographic community. I will be an early baker for sure for this project. It s revolutionnize the way to create holograms. The resolution is quite slow but it’s a great beginning and upgrades will probably make it better.
Will it be possible to hack the machine to create multiplex hologram with 2D animations ?
Thanks for your information,
Pierre